Streaming audio belvedere Soundcloud has active a licensing accord with indie characterization licensing accumulation Merlin, which represents 20.000 absolute labels, including Epitaph, Pias, Warp Records and Ninja Tune. Music from these labels will now be monetized through ads as allotment of the “On Soundcloud” program, which launched a year ago.

On SoundCloud launched aftermost August as Soundcloud’s aboriginal attack to pay rights holders for music hosted on its platform. The affairs had over 100 ally alike afore Merlin active on, including above characterization Warner Music, a cardinal of indies and alike some YouTube networks, including Maker Studios and Fullscreen. Soundcloud has paid over $2 actor to On Soundcloud partners, according to the Guardian.

However, Soundcloud doesn’t aloof appetite to accomplish money with advertising. In adjustment to get the rights to agreeable from above and indie labels, it has additionally agreed to barrage a paid cable account afterwards this year.

Soundcloud admiral haven’t appear abounding capacity about that accessible service, but a recently-leaked arrangement with music publishers suggests that it will accept two tiers: One alms ad-free admission to a bound archive of titles, while addition will acquiesce absolute alive of a abounding catalog. This abounding archive will acceptable be agnate to what Spotify and others are alms — if Soundcloud gets the rights of all above labels, that is: Aftermost month, Sony started to aish songs from some of its artists from Soundcloud afterwards negotiations amid the two parties stalled.